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I obtained my current PhD position at SLU at the end of 2007 and I started to work in February 2008. My research project focuses on the structures of political economy, political ecology and environmental communication along with the production of ecological knowledge within forest sectors post-1974 in Chile and Sweden. To carry out fieldwork I will focus on specific and comparable case studies that I will choose in Chile and Sweden in order to study them in a comparative way. To carry out research in a way that goes beyond disciplinarian boundaries is a very important goal of my PhD project and I will apply different methods.
I was born in Chile in 1974. I studied law and social sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago and I worked for about six years both as legal adviser and lawyer. My areas of specialization were labour rights, educational law, public law, civil rights and bankruptcy litigation. I have a master’s degree in political philosophy and axiology and my master’s thesis deals with citizenship theory and the attempts of constitutionalization within the European Union. I moved to Uppsala, Sweden in 2004 where I undertook different courses related to environment and development issues and I worked one year at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies CEMUS, which is a center in collaboration between Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Besides working in my PhD project I am part of a research team at CEMUS where I have a 25% position within the project GloPat - Global Patterns of Production and Consumption: Current Problems and Future Possibilities. This project is financed by the Swedish Research Council and combines interdisciplinary theoretical approaches – systems ecology, ecological economics, and political ecology - and methodological tools – emergy synthesis, livelihood analysis, PRA, and discourse analysis, and applies them in three case studies of different resources and societies involving global trade: production of genetically modified maize in South Africa, bio-fuel in Brazil, and marine resources in Chile.
Research interests: politics of forests and forest sectors; environmental communication; political economy; political ecology; salmon aquaculture and exploitation of marine resources; climate change and its relationships with power structures, politics and science; discourses on sustainable development
Publications:
- Alarcón et al (forthcoming). Understanding Global Patterns of Production and Consumption: Prospects of an Interdisciplinary Approach. Conference proceedings. VHU, Linköping, Sweden.
Past and upcoming presentations in conferences:
- Ecology and Power, Lund University, Sweden, 17-19 September 2008
- Forest Adaptation 2008- Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health, A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices, Umeå, Sweden, 25-28 August 2008
- Nature, Knowledge and Power, Uppsala, Sweden, 15-17 August 2008
- Resilience Conference, Stockholm, 14-17 April 2008
- VHU-konferensen 2008, Utbildning och lärande för hållbar utveckling, Uppsala 10-11 April 2008
- Fifth Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, UK, 11-13 July 2007
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